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Chapter 7: Seven Daughters Are Here (Chapter 7 Part 1)

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Alia went up to the handcuffed samurai and said " So we meet at last Samurai." And she slapped Jack. He bled from a cut he received on his cheek. The mother smiled. She had wanted this for so long.

She stepped back and said "Good work my daughters!"

The daughters looked at Ashi. Ashi coughed and said "Mother..." And reached in her pocket "It is certainly a joyous day but... but... We were told to provide this as evidence for the samurai's plea of innocence..."

Alia frowned. She walked up to Ashi. Ashi looked down disgracefully. Ashi said "I... I..." She didn't know what to say.

Alia said calmly "Ashi. Calm yourself..." And Ashi looked up. All the daughters and Jack had their eyes on Alia.

Alia rose her hand. She poked the orb and said "What kind of evidence is this?" Suddenly the orb started to crack and smoke pour out of it. Alia swatted it out of Ashi's hands. It hit the floor and the smoke rose making an oval.

Alia looked on at the smoke as it created images. Images of Aku. And she saw a man and a woman and a little girl. She saw many beetle monsters followed by Aku. She saw them slaughter the man and just as they were going for the little girl they were cut up by another man. The man looked like the samurai in front of them. He attacked Aku who retreated.

Alia had her mask on but behind it was shock...

The oval smoke evaporated leaving nothing behind.

The daughters looked at their mom. Ashi stepped forward "A-Are you ok?"

Alia who had had hand on her mask lowered it and said "Yes Ashi... That was a very vile manipulation the Samurai just used"

The Samurai said "What? But I have not manipulated anything."

Alia walked up to the Samurai. He looked in her face. Alia said "You die today, Samurai... By my hand alone for what you have done!"

The Samurai said "What have I done?"

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Samurai Jack looked out of the bars at the seven daughters. They were to keep an eye on him until his scheduled death in three hours.

He sat. He looked at the daughters. They looked at him with hate etched into their eyes. Jack put his hands over his head. He started to imagine many versions of himself berating him for ever thinking it was a good idea to try to change these girls. He could escape or he could let them execute him. Did it matter? Nothing changed anyways.

Samurai Jack had nothing to fight for any more.

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Ashi looked at the samurai cowering in the corner of the cell. Was he still trying to manipulate her? She thought of everything that had happened. She looked at the samurai. Blood was drying on his face from where her mother had slapped him. She looked around at her sisters. Everyone was ok with no injury.

Ashi kept thinking and an uneasy feeling came to her. She recalled all the images the oval had shown and she thought. It occurred to her that there was not enough evidence to prove that the samurai was truly evil. When someone was accused of a crime it was necessary to prove that one was guilty. She looked at him. He looked beaten. She felt a new feeling... Was she feeling sympathy for the samurai?

She looked at her sisters. Did they have the same bad thoughts as she did?

Ashi coughed on purpose. Her sisters looked at her and she said "Excuse me sisters. I must go speak with mother..."

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Alia was in the private room thinking. She was angry. She hated the samurai. She took her fist and hit the rock wall. Her hand hurt now.

There was a knock on the door. She composed herself and asked "Who is there?"

The reply said "It's me mother" and Alia recognized Ashi's voice.

Alia said "come in Ashi". She turned and smiled at her daughter. This was a rare occasion she had her mask off.

Ashi came in and looked down.

Alia realized something was wrong and asked " Ashi is everything ok? Is the Samurai still secure in the cell?"

Ashi looked up and said 'Yes Mother, He is". She diverted her eyes to the side "It's just... I..."

Alia said "Yes, Ashi?" Wondering what was bothering her daughter.

Ashi turned and looked at her mothers items on the other side of the room. She couldn't look her mother in the eyes. "It's just..." She paused "I am having doubts about how guilty the samurai is... Maybe he is not guilty after all?" Ashi looked down waiting for a reply.

For the first time ever Alia felt rage. Her daughter was really saying this? Alia picked up a knife to end her daughter's life. Then instantly thoughts came back to her of her father. She stopped. She dropped the knife. She froze. She stopped.

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Ashi turned and automatically her mother hugged her. Ashi hugged back saying "So... You're not mad? You don't hate me?

Alia said " No. I love you Ashi". Ashi noticed her mother seemed upset.

Ashi asked "I just wish to know if you are for sure positive that the samurai is guilty? Tell me the truth and I will believe you."

Alia paused. She said "Yes Ashi. He is guilty. Have him ready to be executed. It is to happen in an hour and a half.

Ashi said " Yes Mother! I am sorry I doubted you"

Ashi left her mother's quarters. She didn't know what to do. Her mother had lied to her. She could tell her mother was full of hurt and doubt. She didn't know if the samurai was guilty. Could she allow a innocent person to be executed?

Ashi made a decision.

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Ashi walked towards the Samurai's cell he was imprisoned in. Her sisters were there.

When the girls noticed Ashi she cleared her throat and said "Sisters... Mother has just told me she has a job for you."

The sisters listened as Ashi explained her lie "Mother wishes each of you to go to the sleeping quarters and rest until it is fifteen minutes until the execution. Then you are to go and meet mother and I for the samurai's execution. She is already resting so do not see her until then. Ok?"

Ami got up off the ground and walked off saying "Good! I am tired!" She seemed to want to leave quickly.

The other girls followed with Achi and Avi last. Achi looked at the samurai with hate. Avi saw her facial expression and said " Soon this retched, vile, evil creature will be gone.. For now we rest!"

After all the daughters except Ashi had left Ashi sat down. She looked at the samurai. He was asleep.

Ashi picked up a rock and tossed it at the samurai's head. He awoke. "Fifty Five minutes until your death samurai!" She said. The samurai didn't move.

Ashi stood up. She used keys to unlock his cell. Ashi looked at the unmoving samurai. She sat and said "Samurai! Turn and talk with me!" He remained still. Ashi said "I wish to speak with you. Turn around... Please?" The samurai turned.

The samurai asked "What?"

Ashi didn't know. She asked "Samurai... Are you guilty or innocent?"

Jack said "What do you care?"

Ashi said "So.. You are guilty?"

Jack made no words.

Ashi got up and yelled "Damn you Samurai! I hate you scum. Stand up and fight me!"

The samurai didn't move. He just looked up at her.

Ashi didn't know what she was doing. She decided to say what she thought "Prove It!"

The samurai said "Prove what? You shall not ever believe me."

Ashi said "Prove to me that Aku is evil and I shall spare you! Leave with me now and prove it to me!"

Jack said "Pointless..."

Ashi screamed "How long would it take to get to Aku's lair!? You said you knew where he was!"

The samurai looked down and sighed and said "All hope is lost Ashi..."

Silence... Silence... Silence...

"I believe you are innocent samurai." Said Ashi.

The samurai looked up...

Ashi sat down next to the samurai she looked at him and said "Tell me everything..."

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Alia approached the podium and looked on at her audience. A huge mass waiting. She was waiting for the samurai to be brought up. He was going to be publicly executed in twenty minutes.

She thought to herself. She had so many questions. If only Aku was here.

There was a sound. Everyone started shouting. Alia looked up and saw him. Aku!

To be Continued...


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Jss2141: I had the bit about Alia almost killing Ashi in my mind for a long time. And I wasn't able to do it as well as I wanted..And the story may not be THAT close to an end. It is probably about 3/4ths of the way through. When I first made this story I had a theory where to go but now there may be more chapters. If so I will edit chapter 1. Also remember this was written after S5E3 and before S5E4. So I didn't know a ton of S5 cannon things.

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